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Paul Jenkins (1923-2012)
Lot 20 Property of Ruth Britten Sold to Benefit The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College

Paul Jenkins (1923-2012)

Phenomenon Violet Span

Closed30 September 2015

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Paul Jenkins (1923-2012)
Phenomenon Violet Span
signed 'Paul Jenkins' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated 'Paul Jenkins "Phenomenon Violet Span" 1966' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
20 x 70 in. (50.8 x 177.8 cm.)
Painted in 1966.

Specialist note

The successive and consecutive phenomena that Paul Jenkins gives us to dream and to live in the chromatic, multi-toned exultation of his paintings, are conceived with great acuity through the conscious deliberation of a painter and a man nourished by numerous culture…It could be said that Jenkins’ painting reveals a harmonious conjunction of elements from the most austere European rationalism, that of Newton and Kant, and of occult elements charged with magic and warranting incantation, elements for which the divine, in no way, signifies the omnipresence and omnipotence of a single God.
-André Verdet, “Paul Jenkins Becoming,” in Paul Jeniins: Broken Prism, Paris, 1989, p. 13.